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Happier Hour: 55+ Startups Disrupting The Alcoholic Beverages Industry

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At the same time, startups are riding the craft spirits, cannabis-infused beverages, and alcohol-free trends, offering innovative products to happy hour drinkers. Bar Tech — Companies in this category bring big data and online features to bars and restaurants. Hoving & Partners, VOC Capital Partners. InVivo Invest.

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Why We Invested: VCs Sound Off On 7 Recent Early-Stage Startup Investments

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Data Collective. Select Investors: Data Collective, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, Tencent Holdings. Data Collective (aka ‘DCVC’) led a massive $102M Series A round into Element AI – a Montreal-based company that creates research-driven AI solutions for businesses – in Q2’17. Bilal Zuberi, Lux Capital.

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Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $220 Million Week Ending March 25

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In total, there were 13 fintech startups (or 15 by the Bank Innovations definition ), 12% of the total YC W16 class of 109. HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Connects marketplace lenders to institutional capital. Financial data for private equity funds. Source: Crunchbase. Maxwell Health. Payroll & beneifts platform.

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From AT&T To Xerox: 65 Corporate Innovation Labs

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Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Innovation Lab Name: HP Labs.

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B2B Investors Set Sights On Data, AI, Analytics

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Venture capitalists and equity investors targeted companies that apply big data technologies, including artificial intelligence, to an array of use cases, including fleet and manufacturing — leading to more than $322 million raised for B2B startups this week. Cross River Bank. Reports in AmericanInno this week said the U.S.

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Reopening: The Tech-Enabled Office In A Post-Covid World

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A completely remote workforce seems unlikely, given the intangible benefits of social connection, collaboration, and innovation that in-person working provides. Individuals using Alipay’s Health Code fill out a form in the app and the software uses big data to generate a QR code depending on a user’s contagion risk.

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